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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markus_Persson#Controversy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markus_Persson#Controversy He's said some truly awful things. It's too b
by cryptoz 5y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markus_Persson#Controversy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markus_Persson#Controversy
He's said some truly awful things. It's too bad people are downvoting you - this is part of the story of gamedev. Carmack would never say these kinds of things. Persson did. One is a famous and well-known and loved developer, the other is relegated to parroting talking points of alt-right/Nazi discussion boards and does not associate much with the rest of society.
Notch could have been more famous and well-loved than Carmack even, but his personality and hatred of minorities stopped that from happening.
- lostgame 5y agoWell; and when it boils down to it, what did Notch even really do for programming in general? Minecraft is incredibly popular and very well made; but in no ways is it revolutionary or game-changing for the industry in the way Wolf3D or DOOM was. There is essentially the game industry before and after DOOM. Quake, similarly; changed the game; and, in fact - the engines for Quake/II and DOOM/II would go on to be the engine behind a quite massive quantity of games in the 90’s. And then there’s Carmack’s massive contribution to FOSS by allowing us inside the code to learn how the craziness was constructed... Honestly, there are only a handful of people in the world who even had the chance to make that kind of impact.